“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”

— Edmund Burke

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

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Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797

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